skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
blink is basically a fork of a fork of webkit (which is itself a fork of KHTML). It's in the same family, but different.
Terribly reasearched article

It’s not an article, it’s a hit piece. Established publication protecting established vendor. Classic Wired.
Eh, there's an argument to be made that maintaining a healthy market with longs and shorts produces more value in the long term. Generally I disagree with gp tho b/c people love drama even if it isn't 100 to zero.
Having watched a fireman take three good swings with the pick side of a fire axe to break a tempered glass passenger window, I am thoroughly unconvinced that those hammers will do shit in an emergency.
I think it's mostly due to the change in the makeup of the average "engineering" employee in corporations today. There's a very heavy emphasis on computer hardware and software knowledge, and much less on mechanical engineering and physical design.

If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. When you want to design a door handle with specific behavior and you understand software and electronics well but mechanical design less so, you design an electronically actuated door handle and do all the features in software.

It's cheaper, too, honestly, because revising a software system is inherently cheaper than the design-manufacture-construct-test loop for mechanical design.

But, as automotive design advances out of the technical design stasis it's been in for decades due to the dominance/barriers to entry of the US car industry, there's going to be a need for more advanced rules regarding what needs to be manual/mechanical vs. fly by wire.

A similar regulatory regime already exists in aircraft design, which could be a guiding example.
Care to explain how this is market manipulation?
I might, but I'd perhaps be more likely to risk my life saving someone from a Citroën 2CV or a VW Beetle. I'm only half joking. There is a real tendency to judge other people by what kind of car they're in and the decision whether to approach a burning car is likely to be made quickly rather than through careful application of logic.

If you regularly drive more than one kind of car you might notice that other road users treat you quite differently depending on which one you're driving.
>Would be interesting if WSB was allowed to invest in private startups as easily as they can invest in meme stocks.

Not enough liquidity. WSB has very little to do with long term investing. It's just about using the stock market as a casino.
Thanks for pointing this out. I didn't know about that. My experience was like that: one day I could buy transport card by cash, the other day the driver informed that I cannot but tickets by cash anymore.
Only for the front doors. With the rear doors your SOL.
> Although the real problem today is that we need to run programs with less authority than the user running them,

All true; But. What really stopped capability systems is that most users cannot be bothered to grant minimum privilege. Even most developers cannot - we invented containers in part as a way to mitigate the consequences of failing to grant minimum privilege.
See also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Haynes

In this time of not inviting people for dinner, and
of podcasts and quick turnarounds it's fascinating to remember what you can do one week at a time for thirty years
As I understand, it is short squeeze.
At least for GME the stock is still rising uncontrollably. If the WSB crowd who mainly uses Robinhood can't buy then who is pushing the price up?
Because RH's real customers are the hedge funds that buy their trading data.

It's users are the product.

I'm sure this started with a call from a "concerned" board member.
I do. It's cheap insurance.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B073JCMTW2/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_fabc...
One thing to know about the stock market is that it gives the real time price of a stock, but also the real time price to set the price of a stock (by matching the order book volume up to the price you want to reach, then maintaining it).
How is this a classic pump and dump ?

This is a short squeeze: the stock is shorted to the limit, and from the stock price, the shorters entered their positions "uncovered", so their risk is extremely high, and their losses are potentially infinite.

The WSB crowd and probably others noticed this, and bought the stock, knowing that it was going to become more valuable over time once the shorters had to close their positions.

They were right, and the shorters are loosing so much money that they are willing to buy back the stock at astronomical prices to limit their losses, which drives the price up even more.

The WSB crowd just need to hold until the stock is at the maximum price that the short sellers can pay, right before the short sellers default. That's the actual value of the stock right now.

If the stock climbs too much, and the short sellers default, the stock is worthless.

TBH, this is the short sellers own fault. They made the assumption that the market was "fair", and that they were going to buy back the shares for cheap when they needed them as a consequence.

That assumption was wrong.
My understanding is retail investors are buying stock now at $200/share, with the expectation that institutional players will be forced to buy it back at +$200/share to cover their shorts.

This will leave the original holders of the shares (the ppl the shorters borrow the money from) with a stock worth less than $200, but maybe more than their original purchase.

If the retail investors don't "get out", then definitely a few will be caught with the bag, but I think its mostly going to be institutional investors paying crazy prices for this stock.
I don't remember, though I worked on a lot of oddball stuff. 3B2, Pyramid OSX, DGUX, etc.
> spirit of open-source

> whole point of open-sourcing code

I don't think there is a single "spirit" or that open source in any way must necessarily include any collaboration at all. Perhaps a maintainer/project owner feels the work of even approaching other maintainers or delegating even a single unit of work to be unwanted. It's their choice.
Putting code on github isn't an automatic invitation for contribution or collaboration, it's merely making it public. Top reasons I put code on github (I can't know, but I think this is pretty common):

1) To make it searchable and readable by others
2) To use the issue management tools (usually by myself, as TODOs)
3) To make what's built from the code usable by others who can build it themselves or download binaries.
4) To back up the code
5) To use CI tools
6) To get feedback like bug reports from users
7) As a portfolio
You say this like it wasn't the case that media outlets wrote anti-revolution articles then: https://allthingsliberty.com/2014/03/james-rivington-kings-p...
Feel like the platforms are helping out hedge funds by making it challenging to put more pressure on the short squeeze before Friday. Sounds a bit like a cartel in co-ordinating activity under the guise of "reducing risk exposure" - shepherded on by the Financial media.

Trade itself is no longer on technical merits (except those in early) but have you looked at valuations across the stock market these days -- everything is off given pandemic. So that line of reasoning by all the financial talking heads just proves they don't understand the moment.

It's pretty reckless behavior for sure but its more about rage and control then anything imho.
What I find interesting is that RobhinHood has removed GME, AMC, BB, and other WSB darlings. This immediately caused massive drops before market opening. Why does this read poorly to me? I don't do much trading on RH, but I had been using it to monitor the prices as I passively follow this saga. People are upset, and I get it.
A bit of both. If you are running a fund and down 50% from the events over the last few weeks, it's your fault. At the same time, stocks shouldn't be moving 100% each day.
Firefox-csshacks [1] will let you do multi-level tabs in Firefox. I've been using it to give me 3 rows of tabs since Firefox broke Tabmix Plus. It's not as slick as an addon, but it shouldn't be a problem for anyone who lurks here. Clone a repo into your firefox profile directory and copy and paste a few lines of config to enable that feature. This is the sole feature that has kept me on the Firefox side of things.

[1] https://github.com/MrOtherGuy/firefox-csshacks
hedge funds that shorted have to buy to close out their position, they need to buy.
And what if the other guy is wrong and he is attacking me and trying to get me fired regardless of the fact that he is wrong?

You fail to understand that these people cannot be reasoned with.

It doesn't matter if you are wrong or not: those people cannot be reasoned with so you do not really have a choice but to go on the offense regardless of the means you use.

Those people want you gone, fired. You will either do something about that in any way you can or you will lose your income.

There is no "rational" way fighting against someone like that. The person who is attacking already is irattational. Thus neither logic, nor common sense nor good will counter arguments will help you.

That person is like a rabid dog, once it sees you backing down it will only go in for the kill.

Stop thinking that you can "logic" or "talk" your way out.

An offense from your end, regardless if its rational or irrational is your only way of keeping your job.

Would you try to reason your way out when attacked by a mentally ill person? Obviously not, you'd know that there is no way of reasoning with someone whose world view is so warped and who is full of irrational hatred for someone who hasn't directly harmed him.

Stop thinking about logic and arguments, they will be your doom.

Going on a severe counterattack against them is your only option. The bully will only attack you harder if he sees you backing down.

But show the bully that you will punch back and he will lose his power. This might sound like a cliche but people severely underestimate the wisdom of this statement.

Also note that there is no "moral high ground" here.
The person who is trying to make a stranger jobless obviously doesn't care if you or your family will starve.
So the cancel culture proponent already ignored any an all morals since he obviously doesn't know your life situtation and is trying to cancel you anyway.

So really the only "moral" thing to do here is to destroy them back.
Users on r/WallStreetBets have rallied around buying stocks, like GameStop ($GME), that are heavily shorted by the market (generally by larger trading firms). This buying has driven the stock prices up very very quickly, because of the buying itself and other knock-on market forces (google: gamma traps, short squeezes). The players that were short have thus lost a lot of money on their bets. r/WSB has taken a lot of pride in this and using it as a rallying cry to keep buying. It's mostly bs - everyone just wants to get rich - but it's effective and making headlines.
> If we really are to apply the spirit of open-source, wouldn't the community-pro action here be to open the project up to additional maintainers to pick up the slack and delegate out the work?

That requires people the original maintainer can trust. They have to be competent enough, honest enough, easy enough to work with, and the maintainer has to know that.

Moreover, many project shouldn't grow big to begin with. Sometimes much of their value comes from their small size: they're easier to learn, easier to deploy, easier to port, and most of all easier to maintain.
So let me get this straight: A programming environment to program programming environments in. What would be the startup cost of using this be? Hmm. Comprehending and navigating it, eh? So now, when I'm, say, doing embedded C/++ programming, I have to add yet another language to the stack, yet another toolkit, yet another environment _I have to build first_ with my preferences -- so that _another_ person getting into the project can not only use my environments, my toolkits, my code and comprehend those - but ALSO my hand built specialized for my needs programming environment? And this is supposed to _improve_ the situation?

OK, I only skimmed the site, but mostly because above question keeps nagging me and the mind boggles.

IOW, gtoolkit is today's sexy emacs (or, it claims to be what emacs claims/ed to be): Here's a toolkit for writing/extending/MOLDING your tool. Or, acknowledging it's smalltalk-heritaged, it's yet-another-smalltalk-IDE.

It's not like the "extra work" of making your product explorable disappears with glamorous toolkit, the silver bullet. gtoolkit just offers a streamlined set of APIs for you to (comprehend, and navigate, and then) use to make your product explorable, doesn't it. So we add another layer of abstraction, work, and potential for error? What was that with complexity and abstraction? Hmm.
Short squeezes can occur with significantly less short interest than 100% if others want to maintain controlling interest in a stock or are otherwise unwilling to sell except for over market value. Even a small change in a stock's liquidity can result in a large impact on available price.
Run Targets: Run and Debug Your App in the Desired Environment
Then email providers will kick out unapproved users, DNS will kick out unapproved email providers, and so on.

I want an anti-authoritarian internet. The past year has been surreal.
Your next smart home device is a $30 used Kindle
All of that can be true, and irrelevant. If the car has a design that impedes rescue, it will impede the rescue of people who have done nothing wrong. Bad man is dead, buta lawsuit can serve as a nice smack to remind car builders about safe design.
This is incorrect. To understand the business model you first have to understand the order book and how trades normally work. The order book consists of two sides. The bids (people who want to buy, how much and at what price), and the asks(people who want to sell, how much and at what price).

For instance the bid side may say

Alice wants to buy 50 shares at $20 (order added at 10:37)

Bob wants to buy 30 shares at $20.1 (order added at 11:18)

Citadel wants to buy 35 shares at $20.1 (order added at 11:17)

David buy 10 shares at $20.1 (order added at 11:01)

The bids are ordered by price, and ties are broken by who placed the order first.

If Evelyn (Robinhood customer) shows up and wants to sell 5 shares at $20, then the exchange will say, oh nice 20 is less than $20.1, lets get some trades going! $20.1 is the highest prices, and of those orders David's were entered first. So Evelyn's sell order is matched with Davids buy order. The price is determined by the order which was in the book. So Evelyn will get a better price than she hoped for!

If Evelyn had requested to sell 100 shares, then she will first sell to David for $20.1, then Citadel's for $20.1, then Bob's for $20.1 and finally some of Alice's shares for $20.

Ok but what happens if Citadel is paying for order flow?? Now the order book (from Evelyn's perspective) looks like

Alice wants to buy 50 shares at $20 (order added at 10:37)

Bob wants to buy 30 shares at $20.1 (order added at 11:18)

David buy 10 shares at $20.1 (order added at 11:01)

Citadel wants to buy 35 shares at $20.1 (order added at 11:17)

So if Evelyn (Robinhood customer) shows up, and again wants to sell 5 shares at $20, then she will sell to Citadel, even though their order is later than David's.

So to sum it up

Evelyn (Robinhood customer) is unaffected

Citadel wins

David loses.
> There is no logical derivation of GameStop's financial books that would warrant the kind of stock price it has.

Is there a requirement for stock prices to be logical? Wouldn't that would ban all sorts of hft trades?
You reckon this is PR paid for by FB and expressed in the media via Wired?
I am entirely comfortable with the fact that some people on the internet choose to use words I don't like.
Technically, it does, but it's difficult to run anything on microwatts of power generated by photovoltaic cells.

A better standard fiber to premises standard would include a power connection, but that would greatly increase prices, too.
Occupy Wall Street was just 10 years ago. It was the longest demonstration in a lifetime. Nothing changed. How did nothing change? What message does this send?
Current price is $400 actually. Seems to be a very fast moving stock however, it probably will be dramatically different in price by the time someone reads my post.
So you're telling me that by buying GameStop stock, I can help screw over hedge fund managers? I have not bought a single stock in my whole life, but I'm in. How do I start?
I didn't see a failure on Schwab until I hit "confirm" yesterday.

My understanding is TD Ameritrade is only blocking the purchase of stock on margin. If you have the cash, you're allowed to make the purchase.
But how do you know this is happening for this video though?

OPs original assertion was that this has ' innocent explanations.'

Indian sweatshops, contest sites to spread political propaganda ect are conspiracy theories with no proof, far from 'innocent explanations'
The fact that there is a need for tools like that demonstrates the complexity of the current system.

Apart from being extremely expensive.
Premature gloating. The government can always come in at the last minute with bailouts for wall street and overblown charges against the redditors.

I see that you've been HODLing some GME. Sorry bro, have to charge you with economic terrorism. Nothing personal.
I suppose the answer to that is whether some 'geniuses' also are known for treating others well. As I recall, Shannon was described as a nice guy who seemed to care about others or at least respected their feelings. Perhaps technical genuises are better about this than artistic geniuses?

I suspect the majority of genuii are self absorbed. Certainly that aspect of (mis)behavior is a mainstay of the genius stereotype. Or maybe that portrayal in movies is just the conceit of lazy scriptwriters...
Does someone have advice on how to figure out a system, especially a Java API? I'm supposed to own an API at work, but I never really understood how to learn an API. Do you type out the functionality in text? Do you draw a flow diagram? Do you keep things at a class level or dive down into functions and variables? The bright side is that this API isn't very big, so I do want to use this as an opportunity to really learn it and also learn how to approach studying API's in general.
From what I understand, BlackRock has a long stake.

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326380/000083423721...

>BlackRock Inc. trimmed its holdings in Gamestop, Inc. (NYSE:GME) by 18.23% during the 4th quarter, according to the company in its most recent Form 13G/A filing with the SEC. The firm now owns 9,217,335 shares of GME, which represents 13.20% ownership.
If a new Constitution would be written would people want this in it or not? Is this consistent with self-determination or not?
WSB has basically recreated a "boiler room", which is an ages old scam where a small group of insiders would encourage people to buy stock, drive them value up, and then the insiders dump the stock. The key insight here is that for every person selling the stock and making millions, somoene has to be buying. There's a narrative about short squeezes forcing a small number of hedge funds to buy stock, but in practice many of the people buying the stock at the inflated price are retail investors hoping to get rich quick. A few retail investors will get rich quick, but that money will come from the people who join the party late and can't get out before the price drops back to earth.

The trading stops and laws that exist to prevent this kind of wild volatility are basically because for 90% of people, this is not good. By the time your parents read about this in the paper and log into their TD Ameritrade accounts to "invest", they'll be in that group of people left holding the bag.
It's quite simple really:

1. Big hedge fund bet against GameStop stock (shorted up to 140% of the stock, it's called naked short and everybody thought it was illegal since 2008 but that's another story)

2. Lot of small-to-medium investors coordinated over Reddit to take the opposite "bet" en masse (basically buying a lot of GameStop shares) so that the price will go up and "big hedge fund" lose a lot of money.

=> The plan worked. It's a first. Hence the news coverage.

Edit: Typos and formatting
Remember how quaint Occupy Wall St. seemed back in 2011? They were maligned as a bunch of privileged wannabe hippie kids. The economy was "hopelessly complex" and "how were we to know" etc. Seems we're way past that, to blatant protection of the wealthy over a fluctuation in .025% of the stock market.
Tech Populists vs. Wall Street Oligarchs
In my car (not a Tesla) the handle opens the door through a mechanism that relies on a relatively thin steel cable. I've had this cable snap under normal circumstances (which is how I found out about this mechanism). I would not be surprised if this mechanism failed in a wide variety of circumstances. If my life depends on the door handle working properly, I'm a dead man.

Mechanical mechanisms are fragile - anything strong enough to survive impacts at highway speeds at an arbitrary angle is going to be too bulky to move manually without the assistance of yet another fragile mechanism. You can't design unsinkable ships, at some point you need life boats.
I actually do agree that all drivers should have an emergency window breaker, irrespective of the handle fault issue. In the event of a crash where the car is submerged in water, the outside pressure might not allow you to open doors and window breaking or equalising pressure, is your only way out.

Having said that, GP made a rather disgusting comment where he is blaming a dead person for not having a non-mandatory emergency window breaker in a car compartment.

From the article description the handles don't appear to be fault-tolerant and should certainly be investigated.
That this person committed crimes doesn't change that more reliable mechanisms should be preferred or required. That crimes were committed doesn't mean he should burn to death. The legal system should pick the punishment.

There's a reason you're not allowed to have pure drive-by-wire either, requiring mechanical connection to brake and steering.

While doors are generally less of a concern, but it's still nice to know that the door handle works when the electronics do not. Such as when there is a fire. Braking a window is harder than you might think if you don't carry a dedicated tool for it.

(And no, while this guy was a criminal, that does not mean all fires are by criminals, nor that criminals should burn to death)
Although there is definitely a David/Goliath fairness scandal in here, this piece doesn't seem to know the difference between market makers, brokers, and hedge funds.
It's annoying. The regular guy should be able to profit off this too.

I was at the gym yesterday and heard like 5 people talking about stocks: gme, amc, bb. Everyone is trying to get in on this and they're trying to stop it. They bogged gme at open to scare people and now it's back up. If they didn't remove the option for users to buy they surely would have bought the dip.